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Homework Statement
Evaluate the integral of xarctan(3x) from 0 to 0.1 by expressing the integral in terms of a power series.
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The Attempt at a Solution
I differentiated xarctan(3x) until I got two functions that I could turn into power series (arctan(3x) and x(1/(1+9x^2)).
After I found the power series of these two functions I integrated them as many times as was necessary to arrive back at the integral of the original function and got (both as sums from one to infinity):
[(-1)^(n-1)*9^(n-1)*x^(2n+1)]/[(2n+1)(2n)(2n-1)] + [(-1)^(n-1)*9^(n-1)*x^(2n)]/[(2n)(2n-1)]
When I evaluated it from 0 to 0.1, I ended up with 0.0050927 which is not the correct answer, but I don't see where I would have done it wrong. Any help would be appreciated.